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The Verge
For years now, Instagram has sat at the center of trends in food and beverages. Rainbow colored "unicorn foods" are often designed with Instagram in mind, and entrepreneurs responsible for popular treats like the galaxy donut and Sugar Factory milkshake often see lines around the block after images of their products go viral. Now some entrepreneurs are taking the idea a step further, designing their physical spaces in hopes of inspiring the maximum number of photos.
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Fast Company
If you're out at a shopping center, you'll likely spot one of the more than 400 Sephora locations around the country. In fact, you can't miss them. They're sprawling storefronts, lined with rows and rows of shelves and filled with products from different brands for customers to test out. This format has worked well for the brand, which has been thriving in the midst of a major downturn in brick-and-mortar retail. But recently, Sephora announced it is tinkering with a new kind of store: An intimate boutique embedded in a neighborhood.
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Vancouver Sun
Office design is changing, and in doing so, reflects a desire for more social work environments, a movement toward flexible work hours and work spaces and a blending of home and office design. "One thing that I'm going to say is pretty true about the younger generation is the need for connection and face-to-face contact," Sara Remocker of Vancouver design firm DIALOG says. "If everyone works from home, you're losing that connection, so it's really important to design a workplace that still draws people in, where they want to come."
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Co.Design
Having to accommodate millions of travelers and thousands of flights, airports are among the most challenging structures to design. Their sheer scale also makes constructing them an arduous feat, as a recent video of the Zaha Hadid-designed Beijing Airport shows. Its design is intended to make travel as efficient and intuitive as possible.
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If you could design a wall pattern, what would it look like? Enter your pattern into the Acrovyn by Design® Patterns Contest for a chance to win $5,000 and be added to the Acrovyn by Design Pattern Collection. For contest rules and information, click here.
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Curbed New York
Micro hotels aren't exactly a new trend, but the format — itty bitty rooms that are good for sleeping and not much else — is constantly evolving, with a new breed of tiny lodgings emphasizing good design and plush perks as a way of luring travelers. And in the next few months, New York City will see an influx of these, as established brands seek to open new properties and emerging ones get a foothold in the city.
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IIDA
IIDA is pleased to announce the opening of the 5th annual IIDA Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards competition. This competition honors innovation and design excellence in interior design/architecture throughout the Asia Pacific region in 15 categories. Projects must be located in the Asia Pacific region; however, the design firm may be based outside of the region. The deadline to submit is Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Enter the competition.
IIDA
Join IIDA in Chicago for the IIDA Advocacy Symposium beginning September 22, 2017, for three days of sessions, speakers, and panels focused on the advocacy topics that matter most to commercial interior designers. Learn critical skills, including how to build relationships with decision-makers, work with other stakeholder groups, and promote grassroots involvement. Connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. Space is limited. Register now.
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Our dedicated Architectural Reps provide Designers with professional-grade color visualization and presentation tools to help your design come to life. And via our website, access Behr Color Trends, downloadable color palettes, and the Autodesk® Revit® design tool. To receive your comprehensive Behr Architectural Color Box, CLICK HERE.
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Architizer
Ever since Silicon Valley hires began playing ping-pong at work, the design of offices, hotels, and higher-education facilities have become increasingly home-like. Yet this long-running trend has not necessarily been holistic: The bathrooms in many of these spaces possess an institutional atmosphere that is far cry from the inviting kitchen or salvaged wood-lined collaboration zone on the other side of the wall.
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Building Design + Construction
The word design has evolved to have many different meanings in the last decades. It seems there is some new kind of "design" being born every year — from graphic and architectural to web, game, food, experience...and everything in between. So what is design? Who are designers? And are there any common laws or rules than can unite the many types of design that exist?
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This unique and diverse line of extruded aluminum trims was designed to enhance all practical aspects of drywall construction and transform it into a design medium that can make it the feature, the focus and the most impactful element of a well-designed space.
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Bloomberg News via The Seattle Times
The desk of the future knows you, perhaps all too well. It's a sit-or-stand desk, of course, outfitted with sensors that learn your habits and preferences through constant vigilance. When you've been sitting too long, a gentle vibration reminds you to stand. Your chair, also lined with sensors, tells the desk you stood up; the desk, which knows your height, adjusts accordingly.
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By Susan Mulholland
 The media has been focusing on sleep research suggesting that our lack of quality sleep may lead to diseases like Alzheimer's, hypertension, and shorter life spans. The idea that we are not getting enough "quality sleep" seems to be an issue that is on everyone's mind. So is the idea that we are not moving or eating the best foods for what our body needs to function well. How can we help our clients combat these evils?
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Caesarstone
Caesarstone has launched four new colors that are sophisticated, expressive and defy the norm. Montblanc, Moorland Fog and Turbine Grey feature intricate veining with a refined surface. Rugged Concrete brings texture to the forefront as its grey base is camouflaged by billows of white. Caesarstone quartz has a timeless quality that blends function and beauty while delivering superior durability.
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Building Design + Construction
While architecture plays a vital role in any great street, it is the place between the buildings where civic life truly thrives. More than any institution or skyline-busting edifice, well-used and vibrant streets are places for everyone to enjoy; places where people collectively coexist, find common interest, and experience dynamic connection.
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Forbes
It's not over till it's over. You made it through the interview, and now you can breathe again. That time spent preparing has paid off and an offer for a great opportunity is right around the corner. Now, you're in the home stretch where it is important to finish strong.
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Upgrade your site and email address or start fresh with a new .design domain name. IIDA members get their first year free at www.IIDA.design - join the likes of kohler.design and airbnb.design with this hot, new development. MORE
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Inc.
Ditch those cheesy videos and embrace a new crop of high-tech training tools. In 2014, home decor retailer Garden Ridge spent more than $20 million to rebrand itself — a new logo, new store layouts, and a new name, At Home. But giving the 35-year-old Plano, Texas-based chain's staff a reboot was a challenge. "We had fairly jaded workers who'd been with the old regime," says Valerie Davisson, chief people officer of At Home, which was turning over the entire sales floor four times a year.
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